This report explains that the newly elected president of Honduras, Porfirio Lobo, is being widely recognized after fair elections with high turnout. However, it hasn’t been easy:
While the U.S. wanted to pressure the government led by interim President Roberto Micheletti into allowing Mr. Zelaya to serve out his term, analysts say Washington decided the vote was the most pragmatic solution.
“Elections were the escape belt,” says Eric Farnsworth of the Council of the Americas, a U.S. trade group. “It was the way to put Zelaya and Micheletti into the history books. We didn’t support either of those guys.”
But, of course, this is spectacularly inaccurate. We did strenuously support Zelaya and only reluctantly realized that this was a dead end. And it seems that some on the Obama team are still intent on throwing their weight around:
Arturo Valenzuela, U.S. assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs, also kept the pressure on the provisional government to reconcile with Mr. Zelaya, saying more needs to be done to restore full democracy.
“While the election is a significant step in Honduras’s return to the democratic and constitutional order after the 28 June coup, it’s just that: It’s only a step,” Mr. Valenzuela said.
The arrogance is breathtaking, isn’t it? Well, I suspect that the Honduran government has heard quite enough about their own constitution from us. And what of the famous, unrevealed legal opinion of Harold Koh concluding that this was a coup? And the Obami who recommended this tactic? It seems that there’s some cleaning up to do in the administration. If the Notre Dame football team can clean house, certainly the Obami can. And their season has been far worse than that of the Fighting Irish.
Michelle Obama is an anti-American misandrist? How unusual for a leftist. Thanks to her I now know that men are more self centered than women.
Michelle is also a racist, by the way. I guess if we want to hear somebody admit that obvious truth, we’ll have to wait for the next Geraldine Ferraro interview. She was right on the money about Michelle’s hubby–whether people want to admit it or not.
Michelle Obama also has a gripe about the cost of summer camp. Her list isn’t merely growing longer, it’s endless.
Some will comment that what the campaign needs to do is tell Michelle to be quiet. But I suspect that she wears the pants in the family, so good luck with that. Another nuance which could have gone under your earlier post ” ‘Man Enough’ for the White House?”
Ferraro is of course correct – no one would be talking about a white/asian/hispanic 3 year senator with a sparse legislative record, whose work experience consists of teaching constitutional law, some time in the state senate, and some good work organizing community-type organizations. America wants to repent for its shameful past of slavery and Jim Crow. This is a good thing. But must this repentance involve electing an unqualified candidate with a liberal public policy agenda to the most important office in the world, during a vital age?
“this is not something the Clinton folks want to touch with a ten-foot pole”
No, this entire scenario was engineered by the Clinton camp.
Someone close to them drops the stink bomb and the camp issues a denial.
Convenient, eh”
Speaking of Bill Clinton:
It is opined that Bill Clinton committed racist hate crimes, and I am not free to say anything further about it.
Respectfully Submitted by Andrew Y. Wang, J.D. Candidate
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993
(I can type 90 words per minute, and there are probably thousands of copies on the Internet indicating the content of this post. Moreover, there are innumerable copies in very many countries around the world.)
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“If only it were possible to ban invention that bottled up memories so they never got stale and faded.” Off the top of my head—it came from my Lower Merion High School yearbook.